Raf Simons and Kvadrat have decided to take their partnership into a new realm, with the debut of their first homewares capsule.
, where he currently serves as co-creative director, his collaborations with Kvadrat have proven to be a steady constant. While the end product—a series of fabrics that speak to Simons's distinctive eye for color and texture—has been occasionally used by Simons on the runway, its primary application has been as upholstery or accents for furniture and interior designers.
For that, Simons turned to an unlikely source of inspiration, given the project’s sleek, contemporary-feeling outcome: the Shaker community. “I liked the idea of a system, but I didn’t want it to look like a storage unit or anything,” Simons explains. “That’s how we came to the idea of the bar, inspired by the Shakers, who I’ve been obsessed with my whole life.
It quickly becomes clear that part of the reason for the longevity of Simons’s relationship with Kvadrat lies not just in his admiration for their spirit of innovation and emphasis on quality, but also the contrast it offers to the fast-paced hamster wheel of churning out multiple fashion collections a year.
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